Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not tell me that the poor hungry children had to wash with ice in the morning , and walk through wet snow to sit for two hours with icy feet in a cold church on Sundays . |
| 2 | Leave the dough in a warm place to rise for 30 minutes . |
| 3 | Six newspapers were banned at the end of September under a presidential decree empowering the Interior Ministry to close for six months any publication judged to be against national interests [ see p. 39072 ] . |
| 4 | Nose : A very effective place to hit for three reasons : great pain , temporary loss of vision , but no lasting injury . |
| 5 | If you missed Turry 2 the first time round , four pounds is a small price to pay for one of last year 's best games . |
| 6 | All the same , the insurer has so far agreed to pay £8 million in compensation to investors , a significant pile of money even for a major company , and a nasty hit to take for one slip in its monitoring system . |
| 7 | Some local people have reacted by thinking that this is a cheap price to pay for two projects the community would welcome . |
| 8 | Only very rarely will the conditions be met so as to enable the new firm to act for one of the litigating clients let alone all of them . |
| 9 | According to Commission sources , the US negotiators have recently offered the EC 7 per cent of the market in a new agreement to run for two and a half years . |